PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

She contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has “exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agency’s action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.” 2018)) Sen. of Bordentown v. of Bordentown v.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On October 18, 2023, the EPA published a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“SNPR”) regarding incidental discharges from vessels, proposing national performance standards under the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (“VIDA”). Coast Guard (“USCG”) to develop corresponding regulations to enforce compliance with the EPA’s standards.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Pittsburgh Press, 2018). The Santa Barbara spill is often pointed to as one of the foundational moments of modern American environmentalism and environmental regulation, but Spezio seems to flesh out the picture. Her argument is broken into three sections. Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969. Read more ».

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 4, 2021

FERC also regulates interstate pipeline projects for transportation safety purposes. Pipeline construction often requires a Clean Water Act Sec. 404 permit (for deposition of fill material in rivers, streams and other waters) from the U.S. 401 of the Clean Water Act, an applicant for a Sec.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Workgroup The Department intends to convene a PAG-13 workgroup in the coming months to gather feedback on permit requirements from the regulated community and other interested parties. Interested parties may request participation in the workgroup by sending an e-mail to the Department at RA-EPPAMS4@pa.gov by October 11, 2022.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. . Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

Industrial meat and poultry slaughterhouses dump millions of pounds of pollutants into the nation’s waters every year. The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution. The proposal also introduces regulations for E.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. Video: Lake Erie’s murky algae water. Regulation Begins.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.”

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

9 Percent : Share of polluters that did not meet their Clean Water Act discharge permit this year, according to the EPA. The non-compliance rate dropped by more than half since 2018, exceeding the agency’s goal. About 46,000 facilities are regulated under such permits. By the Numbers. News Briefs.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Section 108(b) of CERCLA authorizes EPA [i] to develop regulations requiring owners or operators of certain “classes of facilities [to] establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances.”

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also, a different set of environmental challenges: drought and drinking water supply; rhinoceros poaching; managing heavily vegetated bush and grassland habitat; and protecting the Cape’s extraordinary biodiversity. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy.

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Acoel

MAY 17, 2022

EPA seeking clarification on the agency’s position on bacteria mixing zones and wet weather blending [1] under the Clean Water Act. EPA’s “rule” – imposing secondary treatment requirements on flows within a facility – as exceeding the agency’s legal authority under the Clean Water Act.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2023

The water quality was so bad that there were incidents where tributary rivers that empty into Lake Erie caught fire. These deplorable conditions eventually led to the implementation of the Clean Water Act , which was passed in 1972 and strengthened regulations on industrial waste disposal.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

On January 14, the Environmental Quality Board published final regulations to protect Pennsylvanians’ drinking water from PFAS chemicals by setting new limits on two forms of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the first drinking water maximum contaminant level developed by the DEP. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 1,921 pediatric cancer cases in the state between 1999 and 2018, about 100 per year. An investigation by Circle of Blue uncovered compelling evidence for why — agrochemical contamination in Nebraska’s surface, ground, and drinking water. There are others across Nebraska. If the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Wetlands that filter water draining from creeks into the lake are removing 90 percent of the phosphorus, she said. As part of the Inflation Reduction Act enacted in August, Congress approved $18.05

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, the company announced plans to build a $10 billion complex named ‘The Sunshine Project,’ with 10 chemical manufacturing plants, in St. Mitchell | The Advocate | March 9, 2020 State regulators relied on nearly decade-old air pollution data to support their conclusion that Formosa Plastics' $9.4

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Legal Planet

JULY 6, 2023

State Regulation. Otherwise would like to regulate but will need help. Conservative states might be reluctant to regulate. Flood control and water quality might be the best arguments for persuading them, rather than the intrinsic value of protecting wetlands. Some states, of course, just won’t care.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Working to maintain biodiversity is conservation (regulate), making it illegal to build in a designated wilderness zone is preservation (eliminate).

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. NOAA NMFS – Joint Council Workgroup for Section 102 of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2018 (Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

PaEN] -- Lancaster Clean Water Partners To Begin Accepting Applications For Clean Water Implementation Grants On Jan. House returns to session Jan. 4, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session Jan.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Both animal and environment advocates have filed many lawsuits in this area, some of which have sought stricter regulation of CAFOs. But this win was unfortunately short-lived, as the 2018 Farm Bill overturned the courts ruling. Due to the large number of animals in relatively small areas, CAFOs present a multitude of problems.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Inspectors general for the Defense Department and EPA will investigate water contamination from an Oahu naval base. The Justice Department announced a settlement with a southeastern Pennsylvania water authority over sewage spills that violated the Clean Water Act. Oahu Water Contamination. News Briefs.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” The rule took effect on January 17, 2017; on June 15, 2017, BLM issued a notice of postponement of January 17, 2018 compliance dates.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

Water circulation in the Atlantic Ocean has slowed to its weakest recorded level, and global warming is the likely cause thats according to a new study in the journal Nature. The Middle East is particularly vulnerable to climate change, and competition for scarce water is a flashpoint for conflict and a driver of migration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

The case involved an Idaho couple who wanted to develop over a wetland on their property near a lake; all nine justices on the high court concurred that the EPA went too far in regulating the particular wetland on the couple’s property. More than half of the nation’s $5.6 Most people understand this.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals sent the 2018 Renewable Fuel Standards rule back to EPA after finding that EPA failed to comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act. North Coast Railroad Authority , which concerned the preemptive effect of the federal Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Association of Washington Business v. 95885-8 (Wash.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb. 27, 2018; request for supplemental briefing Feb. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). 1, 2018; ruling Feb. BP p.l.c. ,

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Frey is a former chair of the EPAs Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and he was a member of the CASAC Particulate Matter Review Panel that former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler dismissed in 2018. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act. Comments must be received on or before Dec.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Torres Small represented a rural New Mexico district in Congress from 2018 to 2020 and is the USDA’s current undersecretary for rural development. EPA: The agency issued a rare Clean Water Act veto, further stopping the proposed Pebble copper and gold mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Nominations are due March 2, 2023.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. The report updates the priorities identified in the 2018 Decadal Vision for ocean science and technology and describes opportunities to advance equity across the full the ocean science and technology enterprise. Executive Branch.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA’s 2018 rule also suspended the prohibition for companies currently using ozone-depleting substances. In ruling on the challenge to the 2018 rule, the D.C. The court also rejected the contention that the 2018 rule was not final action.

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